If you haven’t seen the USA Network drama Suits, you are most likely still conscious of it as Meghan Markle’s most significant acting job. The show focuses on an imaginary N.Y.C. law firm– they both wear suits and defend claims, get it?
Which brings us to 2023, and the show is, suddenly, everywhere. It’s now streaming on Netflix for the first time, and is breaking all sorts of streaming records. It’s a perfect binge-watch: The banter is amusing, the plots are absolutely incredible however fun, and you’ll wake up at 2 A.M. tortured by the theme tune stuck on repeat in your head. I also harbor a secret theory that it makes us classic for a fantasy version of Office Life– a fantasy that perhaps never ever really existed, however that we’ve moved even further away from in the current past.
The program ended just the year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and you have to confess that even if you never operated in a high-powered law office with (really fake) views of New York City, the subsequent work-from-home culture altered everything for the majority of people professionally– consisting of style. We released our heels, dry-clean-only blouses, and fitted skirts in favor of more relaxed, frequently stretchy styles. And though the world has emerged into a brand-new typical with a go back to the office, much of us still have no idea what to use to the office.
The women of Suits are a different breed. Yes, the guys use, well, matches– and use them well, I might add– however if you’ve seen one hot guy in a suit, you’ve seen them all. The guys’s matches on this show are pricey, well-cut, and as interchangeable as one of the numerous plotlines where a legal matter gets resolved by blackmail.
The fashion eye sweet of the show is thanks to the women, particularly the 3 main leads, played by Meghan Markle, Sarah Rafferty, and Gina Torres, each of whom has an unique wardrobe. Let’s break down what makes each of their closets so captivating (and consider yourself cautioned if you haven’t yet binged, as there might be some mild plot spoilers ahead).
Rachel Zane is the company’s top paralegal who covertly wants to be a legal representative and falls for her fraud of a colleague. She is whip-smart and strikingly lovely, therefore good at her job she gets a workplace usually only reserved for partners. Her wardrobe is packed with polished organization separates, including an apparently limitless collection of pencil skirts. She is basically a strolling pencil skirt. She holds the Guinness World Record for the majority of pencil skirts and least ability to breathe, most likely.
I am not exactly sure where a paralegal gets the spending plan for the amount of tailoring (or Drybar check outs) she has done, however every one of her skirts fits her like a glove. She sets them with crisp blouses or cardigans, and frankly, based upon her outfits alone, I would absolutely trust her with my life.
While she’s every bit as professional and polished as the legal personnel, she gets to have a bit more enjoyable with her wardrobe. “Donna’s spunky,” Suits costume designer Jolie Andreatta as soon as said in an interview with Slate.
She favors gowns with interesting neck lines, exposing simply enough skin to stoke the smoldering chemistry with her cigarette smoking hot employer, while still being work-appropriate. There is nobody I wish to have a drink with after work more than Donna.
She’s hardcore, ruthless, fantastic, and the method she was composed off the show will haunt me for years (albeit for a spinoff). Regardless of being a rare female in a suited guys’s world, you will not see her in a manly pantsuit– she wears the hell out of sculptural dresses, rich color schemes, and handbags that cost more than home mortgages.
The choice to keep her expert closet more womanly was purposeful and suggested to communicate the character’s confidence. “Jessica is extremely comfy in her own skin, so even if I put her in an actually fitted dress, and she’s got to litigate, she’s going to be comfy in it,” Andreatta described. Love that for her!
